Fred Upton wants to allow Americans to keep health plans

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton plans to introduce a bill Monday that would allow Americans to potentially keep their insurance plans, even if Obamacare would have banned them in 2014

The “Keep Your Health Plan Act” would allow any insurance plans that were in effect on Jan. 1, 2013 to continue in 2014.

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Republicans have documented consumers all over the country who have been told that their plans are being eliminated next year because of the health law. They argue that that flies in the face of President Barack Obama’s promise that Americans would be able to keep their current health insurance under Obamacare. Proponents of the health law say such plans often provided very weak or skimpy health coverage.